Air Force Chief Affendi Buang was appointed last December in a series of key reshuffles in the country’s armed forces. General Zulkiple Kassim was appointed chief of army of the Malaysian Armed Forces; Malaysia’s former army chief Raja Mohamed Affandi Raja Mohamed Nor was elevated to chief of armed forces following the retirement of Zulkifeli Mohamed Zin. Affendi had previously served as deputy to the former Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) chief Roslan Saad and had held other key positions within the RMAF in his decades of service, including Butterworth Air Base commander and director in the Malaysian Joint Forces headquarters.
